The Guardian
Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured
3 min · · Yes, Covid-19 is serious, but context is key and the world is well placed to deal with it · Shared by 140, including Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Gerd Leonhard, Dominik Allemann, Klaus Eck, Ayala Sherbow, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund
The Verge
Facebook’s proposed regulations are just things it’s already doing
9 min · · And yet they’re still better than what some governments are proposing · Shared by 14, including Johannes Lenz, Dave deBronkart, Ayala Sherbow
The Guardian
Facebook is the authoritarians' platform of choice. Mark Zuckerberg, will you fix that?
3 min · · US senator Michael F Bennet’s open letter to the Facebook CEO on the need to rein in hate speech on the social media platform · Shared by 14, including Ayala Sherbow
adn.com
How conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook
17+ min · · Facebook balked at removing misinformation after the 2016 election out of concern it would alienate conservatives. · Shared by 3, including Ayala Sherbow
theoddpost.com
Don’t let them off the hook: Why Social Media companies are responsible for fake news
12+ min · · Why social media is responsible for our fake news crisis. · Shared by 2, including Ayala Sherbow
Vox
How to delete what Facebook knows about your life outside of Facebook
5 min · · The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you · Shared by 187, including Katja Evertz, Desmond Williams, Faik Ersoy, Stefan Diepolder, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Ayala Sherbow, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Economist
Facebook unveils details of its content-oversight board
4 min · · The social network prepares to hand decisions about contentious content to an independent arbiter · Shared by 21, including Azeem Azhar, Katja Evertz, Ayala Sherbow, Mathew Ingram
TNW
Facebook and Zuckerberg keep getting ‘freedom of expression’ wrong
3 min · · Facebook's digital panopticon creates a “chilling effect,” where people are afraid to exercise their freedom of expression. · Shared by 20, including Ayala Sherbow, TNW Top Stories, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー, Rick Powell, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Harvard Business Review
Can Facebook’s Oversight Board Win People’s Trust?
4 min · · The company is pitching self-governance as a way to fix problems like hate speech and disinformation. · Shared by 23, including Mari Smith, Ayala Sherbow, Charles Duhigg, Nir Eyal, Robert Rose
Stratechery
Facebook’s Platform Opportunity
9 min · · Facebook is under pressure from all sides, but that actually means it has an opportunity to build the platform it has always wanted — in digital ads. · Shared by 57, including Lelio Simi, Jonathan Kogan, Katja Evertz, Scott Monty, Michael Carroll, Ayala Sherbow
Social Media Today
New Research Shows Facebook Still Holds Sway With Millennials and Gen Z [Infographic]
1 min · · New research has shown that while Facebook is the elder statesman of the social media landscape, younger users are still logging in at high rates. · Shared by 51, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Ayala Sherbow, Lara Burriesci, Andrew Hutchinson, Katja Evertz
Mashable
Malware, crypto scams, and boner pills: Facebook's had enough
2 min · · Facebook is taking a company to court over allegations it ran an elaborate, malware driven, ad-fraud scheme. · Shared by 20, including Ayala Sherbow, John Rampton, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Uncovered: reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos
6 min · · Groundbreaking research gives snapshot of world in which politics coverage is warped by social media algorithms and friendship groups · Shared by 80, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ayala Sherbow, luis antónio santos, Liliane Ferrari ™, Mark Kaigwa, Lluís Codina, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mathew Ingram, Mark Little
dylanpaulus.com
How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
6 min · · Shared by 45, including David Hellmann, Ayala Sherbow, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Nils Hitze, Florian Hanke 🍎
The Guardian
Read Sacha Baron Cohen's scathing attack on Facebook in full: 'greatest propaganda machine in history'
11+ min · · In a speech, the actor argued that Facebook would have run ads by Hitler. Here are his remarks in full · Shared by 88, including Tiffany Shlain, Jane, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ayala Sherbow, Austin Kleon, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Balaji, Jochen Burkhard, Steve Silberman, luis antónio santos
The Guardian
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
16+ min · · Guardian investigation reveals a covert plot to control some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages and harvest Islamophobic hate for profit · Shared by 134, including Bjorn Larsen, luis antónio santos, Noely ⚡️🏐, Ayala Sherbow, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mark Little, Brad Brooks, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Josep M. Ganyet, Matthias Lampe, Loughlin O'Nolan, Mathew Ingram, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz